{"id":33671,"date":"2022-09-10T20:58:07","date_gmt":"2022-09-11T01:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/the-25th-anniversary-of-ncp\/"},"modified":"2022-09-10T20:58:07","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T01:58:07","slug":"the-25th-anniversary-of-ncp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/the-25th-anniversary-of-ncp\/","title":{"rendered":"The 25th Anniversary of NCP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even as you are reading this, the National Conference on Preaching (NCP) is underway in Jacksonville, Florida. As we&rsquo;ve been celebrating the 30th anniversary of <em>Preaching <\/em>magazine, I almost overlooked that this was the 25th anniversary of NCP.<\/p>\n<p>When we began NCP in 1989 in Tampa, Fla., there were very few such conferences for pastors, apart from denominationally-sponsored events. Today you could probably find a conference or two every week to attend, so long as your continuing education budget account could cover it.<\/p>\n<p>If you&rsquo;ve ever been to one of our NCP events&mdash;whether in Atlanta, Dallas, Orlando or another city&mdash;I hope you&rsquo;ve been blessed with the fellowship and encouragement you found. One thing I love about the event is that it is large enough to bring some great speakers and small enough for attendees to have a chance to speak to those program leaders whose ministries have blessed them through the years.<\/p>\n<p>If you&rsquo;re with us in Jacksonville, come by and say hello&mdash;and be sure to tweet your thoughts using the hashtag #ncp2015. If you aren&rsquo;t with us, I hope you&rsquo;ll join us next year in Washington, D.C!<\/p>\n<p>Blessings!<br \/> Michael Duduit<br \/> mduduit@salempublishing.com<br \/> www.michaelduduit.com<\/p>\n<div style='clear:both'><\/div>\n<div class='the_champ_sharing_container the_champ_horizontal_sharing' data-super-socializer-href=\"https:\/\/www.preaching.com\/articles\/the-25th-anniversary-of-ncp\/\">\n<div class='the_champ_sharing_title' style=\"font-weight:bold\">Share This On:<\/div>\n<div class=\"the_champ_sharing_ul\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style='clear:both'><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even as you are reading this, the National Conference on Preaching (NCP) is underway in Jacksonville, Florida. As we&rsquo;ve been celebrating the 30th anniversary of Preaching magazine, I almost overlooked that this was the 25th anniversary of NCP. When we began NCP in 1989 in Tampa, Fla., there were very few such conferences for pastors, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/the-25th-anniversary-of-ncp\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The 25th Anniversary of NCP&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}